Friday, January 02, 2009

VFC Youth Camp '08: Take This City

Geez.. This entry is almost 1 month overdue. LOL! 

I got up at an unearthly time of 5.30am, bcos Kristen and Michelle wanted to go Yishun earlier and by their mum's request, I had no choice. We took a cab there and reached at 7am! We were among the first few retards to reach lah! Julia won't have never done that on her own, ya!

These were all the bags we were carrying to Youth Camp. Crazy, I know.

Kristen really pose well eh. She packed her whole bedroom into that black bag. Scary.
Waiting for briefing, all excited but half-awake. LOL!
Ashton and Brittany, sitting behind me and Stefanie in the coach.
The sleeping pigs!
We are so bored, we ended up played Winnie the Pooh UNO!
Bored to sleep, literally!
The Teepees rooms.
Amazing Race, right after we alighted from the coach ): 

Bad timing, with the continuous drizzle and grumpy us. No1 wanted to play and were so looking forward to resting in the rooms upon arrival instead.
Next, we went to the horse stable, and I snapped some pics on the way.
The horse with one gigantic white mole on its face. LOL!
Almost-black beauty.
白马王子* (literally translate - white horse prince) ^^
Kaypoh lil horse, keep peeping out of its stable to look at us humans.
Cute lil horse. Funky mane-style.
Horse carriage in Port Dickson!
Goats on the paintball field -.-!
I call it the uphill zebra-crossing :D
Wei Shane, Stefanie and me, in Kudos group. Without their company during camp, I think I would be more grumpy than ever. Ha!
The session hall for the past 4 days, was ever infested with lotsa flies and mozzies.
Bandwagons to sleep in!
BW12 =) Look how retardedly happy Sook Yi is =P
The adjourning room, BW10 =)
Stairway to Crap Sleep!

The sleeping area above us. I feel super bad for the R7/8 girls who slept there, the bedding etc were in disgusting condition, I say.
The metal ladder is so cranky and unsafe, that whenever you step on it, it feels like the bolts and nuts attached to the wood on top, is gonna drop off anytime =\
The shitty lamp at the adjourning door =\

Each time we open the cupboard door, it knocks the lamp and it tilts about 10° anti-clockwise. Very scary and I was praying so hard that the lamp dun drop on us, else we gotta pay for it!

BW14 - the room opposite us =)
Dining area, quite a rustic country-like feel. Not forgetting the amount of flies buzzing around us too. Sighs.
Supper time, with our faithful cup noodles!
Staying up to chit-chat. The R7/8 girls are very friendly people =)
The afternoon our room became a beauty salon. LOL!
On my birthday, Wei Shane was attempting some brotherly handshake to me.
YAY!
Love these kids. 

They made my day on my birthday, and of course the other youths who sang me a birthday song at breakfast too. To my roommates for the simple cup noodles supper and song, hugs and love, along with that crap Malaysian tv show in the background. Thanks to Reen and Gladys from R7/8 for that lil sweet and note during the night session.

Me, the room i/c for BW 12. 

It was no easy task, all the drama and spot checks in the middle of the nights. Sighs. That explains my panda eyes lah!
Was bored during breakfast. Random egg shell got inscribed with my awesome name v^^v
KUDOS note of encouragement from every1 to every1! Pardon the wrong orientation, Blogger sucks sometimes.
KUDOS! From a sian-sian group, to a quite-on group! 2nd last in the games rankings but definitely great people in the group!
With Benadiah and Wei Shane ^^v
I dunno why Sook Yi so buai song in this pic ):
Joyna, the one-eyed laughing monster!
A cheery-looking Yook Si and -ahem- Lulia Jeow -.-!
Yes, Samuel the wannabe ah-beng is trying to disturb Lynette. Typical him.
R5/6 group shot! All 74 of us~
Candid shot of R5/6! Whoot~!

On our way back to Singapore. Finally!

I'm quite lazy to go into details about the camp, bcos I rather remember the good and fun times instead of the annoying stuff that happened. 

God bless you all, and let's go take this city of young leaders! YAY!

Thursday, January 01, 2009

What I Attempted so far in 2008

Another long year have just passed by so quickly. Sighs. I'm getting old.

So, what awesome stuff have I done this year? Let's see....
  1. Completed my BEngSc degree studies (: after much struggles and mood swings.
  2. Passed my Class 3 driving ^^ on my 2nd try.
  3. Took up another ministry in church, Campus Outreach for Siglap Secondary. Perfect core team I got with me, with very enthusiastic responses from the other students! Totally worth it.
  4. Shotgun promotion to Director in Video ministry, partly bcos Zhi Lin, Uncle Melvin's right hand woman decided to leave for further studies. Haha! At that point of "promotion", I still know nuts about directing. LOL!
  5. Officially a net leader. Had 2 nets under me, the older teens' net at first, and now the wide spectrum in age net. 
  6. Went for my 2nd consecutive youth camp during my birthday week, although I felt abit out-of-place this time round. Was more of a babysitter, mother and nanny, instead of being a normal youth playing and screaming away.
  7. Tried my hand on online shopping and I loved the convenience of it.
  8. Bank ended up more dry than ever. 
  9. Played Facebook and had rediscovered many long-lost primary school friends.
  10. I watched my first ever "live" soccer match in Malaysia. Chelsea vs Malaysia (:
  11. 1 full year of crazy nonsense with my bf.
  12. Went to Batam with bf, for my first-ever New Year celebration outside Singapore ^^
  13. Attended 4 weddings, Shi Yun, Han Wen, Aman and Rachel.
  14. Turned 22 and I feel that my memory is failing even more than ever.
  15. Sent out resumes to start off my official job hunt for 2009.
  16. Friendships and other relationships that were maintained, strengthened, dying, lost and gone - left me stronger and more appreciative towards every1 around me.
  17. Attended my first-ever atas music concert - Silver Strings :D
  18. Got myself a new handphone, finally! Not very good but it beats that old SE phone. Here comes LG Viewty :p
  19. Saw a new high in readership on my blog, of about 1000 views per month. Of course, it's 20 times lesser than Xiaxue's but still, thanks guys for being so kaypoh! LOL!
  20. Rediscovered that wasabi is so good to eat!
  21. Wore dresses more than when in 2007 (: bcos of weddings lor...
  22. Last but not least, I got a phobia of bee hoon - due to excessive eating of it for breakfast continously for months.
So, 22 things I've attempted in 2008, coinciding with 22 years of living of this Earth. Thank you, and that's all folks.

Happy New Year to all :D I love you no matter how shitty you are.

God bless!